The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

...aesthetic values are changed under the influence of sexual emotion; from the lover's point of view many things are beautiful which are unbeautiful from the point of view of him who is not a lover, and the greater the degree to which the lover is swayed by his passion the greater the extent to which his normal aesthetic standard is liable to be modified.

Dancing as an art, we may be sure, cannot die out, but will always be undergoing a rebirth. Not merely as an art, but also as a social custom, it perpetually emerges afresh from the soul of the people.

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Man lives by imagination.